Word: stalinabad
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...past month the Kremlin leaders have been stumping their vast country like politicians. Khrushchev addressed a mass meeting in Tashkent, Bulganin talked in Stalinabad. Mikoyan in Ashkhabad (significantly all in Moslem areas of Soviet Central Asia). Molotov was haranguing central Russia, Malenkov speechmaking near the Urals and Kaganovich in Siberia. Wherever they went, they conferred orders and decorations, talked informally with party organizers and worthy workers. This was political fence-mending, Russian style...
Further deglorification would present awkward problems: whether to remove Stalin's body from its conspicuous place beside Lenin's in Red Square, whether to rename Stalingrad, Stalino, Stalinsk, Stalinogorsk, Stalinir and Stalinabad. It was a measure of the Kremlin's cynical knowledge of Stalin's unpopularity (and their own) that within three years after the death of the man whose wisdom, genius and love they had sycophantly proclaimed from every loudspeaker, they could carelessly traduce his name without fear of rioting in the streets from the masses who were said to love...
...tunic adazzle with medals and ribbons; others glinted on a pillow laid at the foot of his bier. Through the great hall floated the sickish scent of massed flowers, from Peking and all the conquered capitals of Eastern Europe, from Communist Parties all over, from Stalingrad and Stalino and Stalinabad and Stalinogrosk...